Told you so
I really, really hate having to say this, but when I learnt a couple of weeks ago that the fragile coalition in power in Italy had finally agreed on a draft law giving unmarried couples some rights (they have none now), not for one split second did I believe that it would stand a chance to be approved once it reached discussion in the full Parliament.
Yesterday the Italian prime minister resigned upon some disagreements in foreign policy. Allegiances will now be broken and made, party groupings will be reshuffled, someone (perhaps even the resigning PM himself) will be appointed to form a new government, and they will start another pointless tour on the roundabout, for the fifty-nth time since Italy became a republic in 1948.
This is no way to rule a modern country. I am today overcome with sadness when I think of all the people I know in Italy who struggle to go on, their voices unheard, their bare necessities denied.
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